Hi. My name is Tonya and my hubby is Zach. My hubby is in the USAF and we have two kids. We are trading our house and all that comes with it and going to live a simpler life in the RV. Right now we live in Florida, but as soon as we order the RV and trade the house, we are going to put in for a transfer. We are looking at northern CA.
My 8 year old son doesn't live with us permanently, so the only child we have at home all the time is our 3 year old daughter. She is autistic and right now goes to Pre-K ESE, but when we move I will be homeschooling her.
We have never had an RV before, so this is all a big new adventure for us. I'm sure we will be needing your help. But we only get one life and we are tired of talking about the "wouldn't it be nice" and finally just do it. If this is the only chance we get to raise our kids we want to do it the way we want, not the way the world thinks we're supposed to do it.
Sharon said
08:20 PM Aug 2, 2009
Welcome Tonya!
Jim01 said
06:42 AM Aug 3, 2009
Welcome to the forum.
Lots of friendly people here, so go ahead and ask those questions. There are no dumb questions on this site.
Jim
NorCal Dan said
08:07 AM Aug 3, 2009
We should be at Beale by March or April...if you have any questions just drop me a line. FWIW, Beale does not have a trailer park anymore, closed it a few years back. They do have a FamCamp but do not allow long term residents. Welcome to the forum.
Bev said
06:21 PM Aug 6, 2009
wow, proud of you for "figuring it out" while you are so young! my husband is military (army) as well, heading to afghanistan in a few months. we are close to retirement age, plan on hitting the road fulltime in 3 years...cannot wait! best of luck to you
jimdee said
12:46 PM Aug 7, 2009
Welcome to the forum and RV-Dreams. We should be on the road by March 2010 and maybe meet up with you at the military bases. We're retired Airforce after 26 years.
Speedhitch said
04:03 PM Aug 7, 2009
I am on the government payroll...SS and DAV...and not allowed to stay on the bases but I hope we will meet you out in the civilian world. Wish you all the luck in the world...stay tuned here and keep us up to date on your progress.
RodnReal said
04:57 PM Aug 7, 2009
First of all, thank all of you for your service to our great country.
We're hitting the road in June of 2011 if all goes according to plan and we hope to meet all of you eventually.
pierreandcolleen said
04:09 AM Aug 8, 2009
Tonya,
Great blog! Congrats on making the decision to teach your kids that there is more to life than just stuff.
-Colleen
princess tonya said
03:49 PM Aug 9, 2009
I wanted to thank everyone for the warm welcomes. We've been busy getting things done so we can buy the RV as soon as the house sells, and I've been reading so many posts on this site.
We had our first garage sale and made a little over $200, and that was just off of junk. We haven't started selling our actual things we use all the time yet.
Thanks again for all the help we've gotten from all of you. Your posts have helped show us that we are making the right decision even when some people question us.
My 8 year old son doesn't live with us permanently, so the only child we have at home all the time is our 3 year old daughter. She is autistic and right now goes to Pre-K ESE, but when we move I will be homeschooling her.
We have never had an RV before, so this is all a big new adventure for us. I'm sure we will be needing your help. But we only get one life and we are tired of talking about the "wouldn't it be nice" and finally just do it. If this is the only chance we get to raise our kids we want to do it the way we want, not the way the world thinks we're supposed to do it.
Lots of friendly people here, so go ahead and ask those questions. There are no dumb questions on this site.
Jim
Great blog! Congrats on making the decision to teach your kids that there is more to life than just stuff.
-Colleen
We had our first garage sale and made a little over $200, and that was just off of junk. We haven't started selling our actual things we use all the time yet.
Thanks again for all the help we've gotten from all of you. Your posts have helped show us that we are making the right decision even when some people question us.